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Fla. party schedule will Bowl you over JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Boston may be still under a mountain of
snow but down here in F-L-A, it's party time as a week of Super
Bowl XXXIX festivities gets under way in the city that boasts
of being the home of the world's largest outdoor cocktail party.
Irregardless, as Tom Brady would so eloquently put it, there's
scores of soirees and a whole lotta hoedowns to get through before
the kickoff and, God and our livers willing, we'll hit them all!
Longoria spotted with 'NSync singer MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- Eva Longoria was desperate to set the record straight on her love life during a photo shoot in this northern Mexico city where her family has roots. The co-star of the ABC smash hit Desperate Housewives, was spotted at Monterrey's international airport on Sunday with 'NSync singer JC Chasez, following the actress's photo shoot with Latina Magazine over the weekend, the Reforma newspaper reported in its Monday editions. The magazine invited Longoria to do the project after learning that her family is from Monterrey. Longoria arrived alone in the city on Friday, but Chasez was present later during the photo shoot, Reforma said. Chasez told reporters he was in Monterrey on vacation, while Longoria said she was "here alone, with my friends, my publicist." Longoria told the newspaper that Chasez "is only my friend." Asked about her experience in the city, the 29-year-old actress said, "I spent some fabulous days here. Everyone was really nice to us." Longoria returned Sunday to Los Angeles to shoot additional episodes
of the series in which she plays the disillusioned suburban wife
of a wealthy and corrupt Hispanic businessman.
Sightings Cher, taking in the 10:30 p.m. show of "Ka" Friday and then meeting the cast and crew backstage. She was in town for her concert at the MGM Grand on Saturday. ... Hollywood writer-director Quentin Tarantino, on the town at Club Paradise with 15 galpal employees on an all-expenses-paid trip funded by Tarantino. ... "Cousin Sal" Iacono of ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," pulling stunts on customers at the Tropical Smoothie Cafe at Russell and Pecos roads on Friday. Among his annoying bits for future airing: putting customers' change in a tip jar without asking and adding a raw fish to a smoothie as the protein boost. ... 'N Sync's Joey Fatone, celebrating his 28th birthday with a party of 12 that included Lance Bass and George Maloof at N9NE Steak House (Palms) on Friday. Fatone stopped at Hart & Huntington tattoo company to get a Venus' flytrap on his left shin, a link to his "Little Shop of Horrors" role on Broadway. ... Local buzz band The Killers, featured in People's Feb. 7 issue, two weeks after they were on "Saturday Night Live."
Lainie Kazan: Star of stage, screen, TV and song
"He was very instrumental in my career," said Kazan from her office in Los Angeles, Calif. "I did his show maybe 10 times (in the 1960s and ’70s) and did a tour of outdoor theaters with him in the summer of 1970. "He made my name recognizable to the public," she said. "He was a loving, funny, generous man." Kazan, 64, will be honored Thursday (Feb. 3) at the Sarasota Film Festival's annual Luncheon Under the Banyans at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens. Her life and work, which spans more than 40 years on the stage, screen, television and in recording, will be celebrated at the elegant luncheon. Previous honorees include Patrick Stewart, Rita Moreno, Shirley Jones and Gena Rowlands. The actress/singer, who has homes in New York and California, recently completed the feature film called "Red Riding Hood," a musical retelling of the classic fairy tale with modern dialogue and original songs. It stars Joey Fatone and Debi Mazar and features music written by Bruce Roberts. She has also recently finished the independent film, "Intervention" with Olympia Dukakis, Mary Stuart Masterson and Gary Swanson. Directed by Peter Masterson, it is the story of a playwright and his "intervention" for drug and alcohol use. Kazan likes her role as a "sophisticated woman" in the movie because it represents a departure from her stereotype. In recent years, she has been type cast as the ethnic mother. "I've played everybody's mother but Whoopi's," she said, laughing. In the 1982 comedy, "My Favorite Year" with Peter O'Toole, she played Belle, the Italian Brooklynite mother of a screenwriter, played by Mark Linn-Baker. Her matronly portrayal of the ultimate fan of O'Toole's flamboyant matinee idol Alan Swann wasn't much of a stretch, she said. "I was so impressed and overwhelmed that I was meeting a celebrity like Peter O'Toole, that I didn't have to go very far to play the character," she said. The role earned her a Golden Globe nomination. She was nominated for a Tony award for the same role when "My Favorite Year" played on stage as a musical at Lincoln Center. She was also nominated for an Emmy for the television drama, "St. Elsewhere." Big, fat Greek movie In 2002, she played Maria Portokalos, the Greek-American mother of Toula, portrayed by Nia Vardalos, in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." Directed by Joel Zwick and written by Vardalos, the small, independent film becamebecause a surprising, feel-good hit that year. About four years ago, Kazan responded to a call from her agent to read for Tom Hanks, whose production company produced "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." "It was a chance for me to meet Tom Hanks," she said. "He told me, 'If we do a movie, we will call you.'" About 18 months later, Hanks called. The camaraderie among the cast members, including Vardalos, John Corbett and Andrea Martin, was so strong that it translated onto film. "Our feelings for each other came out on the screen," she said. "It was so honest and well written. The public needed a heroine like Toula. She wasn't perfect, but she was delicious and warm and funny. Chinese people come up to me and say, 'You were just like my mother in that movie.'" Kazan has also played a similar role as Grace's Aunt Honey on television's "Will & Grace." She has been cast as a Greek, Italian or Jewish mother or aunt, but her heritage is Spanish/Russian/Jewish. Broadway baby Born and raised in Brooklyn, Kazan earned an undergraduate degree at Hofstra University in theater and speech therapy. She started performing off-Broadway when she was a sophomore, but completed her schooling. Kazan got her big break as the understudy for Barbra Streisand in Broadway's "Funny Girl." She went on stage for Streisand only twice from 1963 to 1964, but the performances changed her life. "It has resonated for 40 years," she said. A featured performer on "The Dean Martin Show," Kazan appeared on the variety program 26 times in the 1960s. "I sang with Dean and I sang by myself," she said. "He never rehearsed. I had to poke him when it was his turn to sing." Kazan has also had an extensive recording and singing career and has performed in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and in New York and has sung with symphonic orchestras, including the Boston Pops, the Palm Beach Pops and the Cleveland Symphony. Her latest CD is called "Lainie Kazan – In the Groove," and was produced by Kazan, David Benoit and Clark Germain. Her daughter, Jennifer Bena, sings on the CD and pianist Benoit performs. "I have had a wonderful concert career," she said.
"I get to sing torch songs on stage and present a different,
sensuous side of myself. I'm lucky to be working."
People: Chitchat about the stars Justin Timberlake, watch out. Katherine Jackson told celeb interviewer Daphne Barak she is still miffed at the 'N Sync singer for his involvement in daughter Janet's "wardrobe malfunction" at last year's Super Bowl halftime show. "What I didn't like is there wasn't one person on that stage,"
she said. "There were two people. After a while, there was
only Janet Jackson. That's all there was. Janet Jackson." Company Magazine's 100 Sexiest Men! It's that time of year again when "Company" Magazine release Company Magazine's 100 Sexiest Men! (August edition) Brad Pitt has been voted the world's sexiest man - with David Beckham relegated to fourth place. The Hollywood hunk shot from number three to number one in Company magazine's annual 100 Sexiest Men poll, with his Troy co-star Orlando Bloom a close second. But the nation seems to have fallen out of love with Becks - he was beaten into fourth spot by EastEnders heart-throb Nigel Harman. Harman rocketed up 73 places to number three thanks to his smouldering turn as Dennis Rickman in the BBC soap. "I'm absolutely thrilled to win the bronze medal amongst such esteemed company," the actor said. Two years ago, Beckham topped the Company poll and last year he was only kept off the number one spot by Justin Timberlake. Pop star Timberlake is down to fifth this year, followed by Colin Farrell, Johnny Depp and Robbie Williams. Jude Law is at number nine with Duncan James from Blue at 10. To win a years subscription to "Company" Magazine, simply tell us who's who in the five pictures we've featured and we'll put you in the draw. Click here to enter! Company Magazine's 100 Sexiest Men! (Brackets donote last years ranking) Brad Pitt (3)
Celebrity Birthdays Jan. 31: Actress Carol Channing is 84. Actress Jean Simmons is
76. Actress Suzanne Pleshette is 68. Actor Stuart Margolin ("The
Rockford Files") is 65. Singer Harry Wayne Casey of KC and
the Sunshine Band is 54. Singer Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols
is 49. Actor Anthony LaPaglia ("Murder One") is 46.
Actress Kelly Lynch is 46. Singer-guitarist Lloyd Cole is 44.
Actor John Dye ("Touched by an Angel") is 42. Bassist
Al Jaworski of Jesus Jones is 39. Actress Minnie Driver is 34.
Actress Portia de Rossi ("Arrested Development," "Ally
McBeal") is 32. Actress Kerry Washington ("Ray")
is 28. Singer Justin Timberlake of 'N Sync is 24.
Diaz freaks out over bugs on MTV reality show Actress Cameron Diaz struggled with giant insects during filming of her MTV reality travel series Trippin'. Diaz joins a host of celebrities including her boyfriend Justin Timberlake, Drew Barrymore and DMX in a variety of exotic locations -- which are being kept secret to avoid unwanted attention -- but she struggled to get to grips with life in the jungle. "We're trying to keep it on the down-low, so to speak, so that people don't try to find us because we want to have a really organic experience," the 32-year-old said during the premiere episode. "Sorry -- there's a lot of bugs -- they're really big and
they latch on to your legs," she said, laughing. "I
hate bugs!"
Celebrity moment of the decade It might have had some long-time fans of the tournament asking,
"Justin Who?", but the arrival of teen idol Justin
Timberlake to the 2002 Classic had several ramifications.
First, it brought plenty of teenage girls and their parents to
the tournament, many of whom had probably never seen a course.
Second, it showed that the tournament was making efforts to add
new, younger celebrities to attract new fans to the event. Finally,
it showed that golf, once considered a sport only for the retired
or the rich, is continuing to make strides in popularity with
younger celebrities.
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